Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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Chicago faces nearly $14 million more in settlements for two men framed for murder by Detective Reynaldo Guevara, on top of a misconduct bill that has already passed $80 million.
11 September 2026
Appeal's campaign would make the state review the case files of every police officer sent to prison, so a corrupt officer's wrongful convictions surface.
11 September 2026
Michael Pfleger's lawyer says the Archdiocese of Chicago removed the priest five days before it interviewed his accuser, whose account it found not credible.
10 September 2026
When a priest is accused of sex abuse, should they be removed before an investigation is complete?
10 September 2026
More than 100 lawyers stood in silence outside the Old Bailey in support of Rajiv Menon KC, who faces an unprecedented contempt of court prosecution carrying up to two years' imprisonment over his closing speech to a jury in a protest trial.
9 September 2026
Stacey Sharples was jailed for four-and-a-half years in March after admitting 10 counts of perverting the course of justice. The Court of Appeal has ruled that term unduly lenient and increased it to seven years.
9 September 2026
A woman who lied to the police falsely accusing ten innocent men of rape had her sentence increased following intervention by the Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP.
9 September 2026
Four organisations have sued the Department of Justice in federal court after it failed to release records on the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a federal police misconduct registry created in 2023 and shut down in early 2025.
8 September 2026
Khloe Simmonds was jailed for seven and a half years for eight counts of perverting the course of justice, after making false rape allegations against a series of men between 2018 and 2026.
7 September 2026
A 14-page Met document lists dozens of 'inappropriate terms' officers must avoid in reports sent to senior officers and CPS lawyers, and legal experts warn it tells police to abandon neutrality in records that later reach a courtroom.
6 September 2026